The Joys of Travel

Kalimera! (Good Morning)

I know this will shock many of you who have flown American Airlines, but I was waiting in Amarillo to board my flight to Chicago and then came an announcement that an indicator light came on in the cockpit and they had to call a mechanic. 45 minutes later(!!!) a mechanic showed up and said they had to replace a battery. That didn't sound too bad...but it was. They kept updating our times to leave. I kept re booking my connecting flight and then missing them. We watched the 3:20 flight arrive and then leave before our 1:15 flight. Three hours later, we were allowed on the plane and then had to wait while they refueled. We thought perhaps they could have done that during that three hours.

I got to my hotel around 10:00 and met my roommate Myra. She works at a high school in San Francisco. She is going to be a new assistant principal next year. She is really nice and we compared our states problems in education.

All day Thursday we had workshops about Bulgaria including the history, art, language and culture. Thursday night we went to a Bulgarian restaurant and ate some wonderful Bulgarian food. Then we learned some Greek and Bulgarian folk dances. They seem to be good exercise which I needed after all that food! (See the pictures)

Friday we had workshops about Greece covering the same types of content. We had a wonderful family style Greek lunch. We did not get to work that one off with dancing however.

We leave for Athens this afternoon and we are all excited and ready to be there, as you can imagine. I will post as often as I have time and Internet access.
See you soon.

Amy